Archive-It Partner News, February 2024
February 22nd, 2024
Introducing ARCHWay
ARCHWay, a free Archives Research Compute Hub (ARCH) service, lets you computationally explore web archives in new ways. Users have access to a diverse set of collections, as well as the ARCH user guide with written and video tutorials on how to use and explore ARCH datasets. If you’d like to learn more and request access to your own ARCHWay account, check out the ARCHWay announcement on the Archive-It Blog.
Community News
Community Webs expanding with additional grant funding
The Internet Archive is accepting applications from public libraries, local and community archives, and other cultural heritage organizations to join Community Webs, our Community History Archiving Program, as a result of recent funding from the Mellon Foundation. The program offers free access to Archive-It and Vault services, training and technical support, as well as resources for networking and professional development. Apply here or register to join us at our next Information Session on Wednesday, March 13th at 11am Pacific/1pm Eastern.
Events Calendar
Connect with our team at these upcoming events:
- Queer History South, February 23-24 – Charlotte, NC
- BitCurator Forum, March 19-22, Online
- Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC), April 8 – Philadelphia, PA
- IIPC General Assembly and Web Archiving Conference, April 24-26 – Paris, France
- The Crossing Fonds Digital Archives Symposium, April 25-28 – Vancouver, BC
What we’re reading
- WARC-GPT: An Open-Source Tool for Exploring Web Archives Using AI – Harvard University’s Library Innovation Lab introduces “WARC-GPT”, an experimental prototype built to help understand if/how AI can help users explore web archives.
- Migrating to pywb at the National Library of Luxembourg – László Tóth, Web Archiving Software Developer at the National Library of Luxembourg, describes the process of migrating their web archive from Openwayback to Pywb.
- Preservación digital de contenidos publicados en la web y las redes sociales –
Digital preservation of content published on the web and social networks, a Spanish Language publication from Perla Olivia Rodríguez Reséndiz and Joel Antonio Blanco-Rivera, offering guidelines for planning and implementing web and social media archiving projects. - Digital Scholarly Journals Are Poorly Preserved: A Study of 7 Million Articles – Martin Paul Eve from the University of London describes their study examining the preservation statuses of citations through the digital object identifier (DOI) system.
Tech & Training
Surveying Community Webs Members’ Digital Preservation Needs
The Community Programs team at the Internet Archive conducted a comprehensive survey to understand the digital preservation requirements of Community Webs program participants. We invite you to discover the insightful results of this survey on the Archive-It blog.
Check the Help Center for the latest updates and support
A warm welcome to our newest Archive-It partners!
Miami-Dade Public Library System
Historic Takoma, Inc.
The Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama for the University of Alabama at Birmingham
Barry Sharples
DPG Media
University of California, Berkeley, Department of Geography